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RIP G-Rock 106.3 WHTG/106.5 WBBO: Jersey's Rock Alternative

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Today at noon Press Communications pulled the plug on NJ's Alternative "G-Rock" which was on 106.3 WHTG-FM & 106.5 WBBO......The new format is satellite Top-40 called "Hit 106" with nothing done locally....G-Rock was one of the best sounding Alt Rock stations on the east coast.....Now it is gone and replaced with generic boring Top-40 which can already be heard on several area stations....With Indie 103.1 flipping this past week and now G-Rock radio has once again sunk to a new low :-[
 
Between this and Indie...just bad. We lost 2 GREAT alternative stations in the past week or so. For radio, for alternative radio, this was a huge blow. If your so called "alternative" station plays Disturbed and Seether, you wouldn't understand. These two stations pushed the envelope and paid for it. What's the use of being "atlernative" if you can't BE an actual alternative to what's on the radio... :mad: G-Rock, RIP.
 
There's still a few decent ones left...my hometown of Boston has WFNX, there's WWCD CD 101 in Columbus OH, WEQX in Vermont, KNDD The End in Seattle, KNRK Portland just to name a few. They certainly aren't thriving around the country though..
 
WBIMDJ said:
Between this and Indie...just bad. We lost 2 GREAT alternative stations in the past week or so. For radio, for alternative radio, this was a huge blow. If your so called "alternative" station plays Disturbed and Seether, you wouldn't understand. These two stations pushed the envelope and paid for it. What's the use of being "atlernative" if you can't BE an actual alternative to what's on the radio... :mad: G-Rock, RIP.
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I wouldn't say G-Rock pushed the envelope per say, but, they still were a lot better than most of the Active-happy stations reporting as Alternative. And they still kill anything that broadcasts out of New York City.
 
We former listeners of whtg will have the last laugh. Piped in chr will be a difficult sell and will not be the results the suits thought.
 
I may not have been a fan of g-rock, but even I agree, why pull the plug on a station that sounded great with Terrie Carr as PD? In fact, why trash the frequency 106.3 that was KNOWN as the rock alternative channel in its history and flip it to a chr feed that is not even gonna be listened to anyway, and if it will be listened to, its only gonna show on 106.5, since they got their wish for a chr down in OC. This is CBS-FM flipping to Jack FM deja vu.
 
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